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Apple forces content on users – archived source

Apple’s free U2 album perplexes, annoys some The album may appear on your iPhone or iPad whether you want it or not, a move that apparently is ticking off a number of iTunes users. Lance Whitney – Sept. 11, 2014 8:44 a.m. PT Apple has automatically gifted the latest album from the group U2 for […]
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Microsoft cooperated with the NSA and FBI for access to user data in the cloud – archived source

Microsoft openly offered cloud data to support NSA PRISM programme By Jamie Hinks May 14, 2014 Microsoft’s cooperation with the NSA and FBI on the controversial Prism programme has been laid bare in a new book written by an American journalist that brought it to public attention in the first place. Related: The year the NSA hacked the […]
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Backdoor in Samsung Galaxy devices – archived source

Backdoor in Samsung Galaxy devices ‘allows remote access to data’ According to one developer, Samsung has committed a big security error by letting its modem write to disk but Samsung says it’s a “software feature” that poses no risk to users. Written by Liam Tung, Contributor on March 13, 2014 The developers behind Replicant, an Android OS based […]
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Google’s Email service is used to profile all users – archived source

The Psychological Dark Side of Gmail  Yasha Levine, PandoDaily and Alternet.org December 29, 2013 This article first appeared on PandoDaily.  “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” “Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.” —Eric Schmidt Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley […]
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LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers – archived source

LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers Earlier this month I discovered that my new LG Smart TV was displaying ads on the Smart landing screen. After some investigation, I found a rather creepy corporate video (since removed, mirror here) advertising their data collection practices to potential advertisers. It’s quite long but a […]
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Skype cooperates with the US government to allow access to user communications – archived source

Project Chess: How U.S. Snoops On Your Skype Peter Cohan Contributor – Jun 20, 2013, 07:48am EDT If you thought that the U.S. government only tracks meta-data on your calls or scoops up your Facebook page and YouTube videos, think again. Skype — a subsidiary of Microsoft since October 2011 when Redmond bought it for $8.5 billion — […]
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Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them – archived source

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? Glyn Moody – Published 14:34, 17 June 13 Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is already a huge collateral benefit. On the one hand, the US government is falling over itself to deny some […]
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Google Play Store shares personal user information with app developers – archived source

Google Play Store policy raises privacy concerns By Reuters | Updated: 15 February 2013 15:50 IST Google Inc’s privacy practices are drawing heat after an Australian software developer said the company was providing him with personal information, including email addresses, of everyone who purchased his mobile app. The information that Google shared, which included customers’ […]
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Skype likely allows 3rd party access to all conversations – archived source

Skype Won’t Say Whether It Can Eavesdrop on Your Conversations BY RYAN GALLAGHER – JULY 20, 2012 4:37 PM New surveillance laws being proposed in countries from the United States to Australia would force makers of online chat software to build in backdoors for wiretapping. For years, the popular video chat service Skype has resisted taking part in online surveillance—but […]
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Microsoft has the ability to remotely delete Windows 8 apps – archived source

Microsoft: We can remotely delete Windows 8 apps Like Apple and Google, Windows Store will include a ‘kill switch’ to disable or eliminate rogue apps By Gregg Keizer – Senior Reporter, Computerworld | DEC 8, 2011 1:57 PM PST Microsoft will be able to throw a “kill switch” to disable or even remove an app from users’ Windows 8 […]
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